53 Wis. 2d 483 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““939.48 Self-Defense And Defense Of Others. (1) A person is privileged to threaten or intentionally use force against another for the purpose of preventing or terminating what he reasonably believes to be an unlawful interference with his person by such other person. The actor may intentionally use only such force or threat thereof as he reasonably believes is necessary to prevent or terminate the interference. He may not intentionally use force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 80 Wis. 2d 122 - State v. Mendoza · 199 Wis. 2d 174 - State v. Coleman

2. “[o]ne exercising 17 No. 2019AP1046-CR the privilege of self-defense intends to use force or to threaten force against another for the purpose of self-defense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Theophilous Ruffin · 118 Wis. 2d 67 - State v. Salter

3. ““The type of news is important in the claim of potential prejudice. Uneditorialized news of purely in-”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 64 Wis. 2d 443 - Rohl v. State · 76 Wis. 2d 1 - Turner v. State